deploy

To deploy is defined as to get into combat position.

(verb)

An example of deploy is a platoon of Marines being sent out to battle.

See deploy in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb

Mil.
1. to spread out (troops, etc.) so as to form a wider front
2. to station or place (forces, equipment, etc.) in accordance with a plan
to spread out or place like military troops

Origin: Fr déployer, to unfold, display < OFr desployer, to unfold < L displicare, to scatter (in ML, to unfold): see display

intransitive verb

to be deployed

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See deploy in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb de·ployed, de·ploy·ing, de·ploys

verb, transitive

a. To position (troops) in readiness for combat, as along a front or line.
b. To bring (forces or material) into action.
c. To base (a weapons system) in the field.
To distribute (persons or forces) systematically or strategically.
To put into use or action: “Samuel Beckett's friends suspected that he was a genius, yet no one knew . . . how his abilities would be deployed” (Richard Ellmann).

verb, intransitive

To be or become deployed.

Origin:

Origin: French déployer

Origin: , from Old French despleier

Origin: , from Latin displicāre, to scatter

Origin: : dis-, dis-

Origin: + plicāre, to fold; see plek- in Indo-European roots

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